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A baby wearing a soft organic cotton bodysuit instead of stiff designer infant clothes

The Truth About Designer Infant Clothes and Scratchy Tulle

I was sweating straight through my postpartum mesh underwear in the back seat of a Ford F-150 somewhere on Highway 290, frantically trying to unfasten fourteen microscopic pearl buttons while my three-day-old newborn screamed like a banshee. It's funny how...

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A baby wearing a waterproof silicone bib while eating messy spaghetti

The Messy Truth About Why We Finally Switched To Silicone Bibs

Let me paint a picture for you. It’s a random Tuesday in November 2017. Maya is six months old, and we're embarking on the mystical, terrifying journey of Baby-Led Weaning. I'm sitting on my kitchen floor at 2 PM wearing...

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Folded organic cotton baby blankets stacked on a nursery changing table.

The truth about high-end baby presents and what parents want

The water in my bathroom sink was turning a very specific shade of neon yellow. It was three in the morning, my son Rohan was screaming from his bassinet with the raw, desperate lung capacity of a code blue patient,...

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Confused dad holding a tiny, stretched-out synthetic baby onesie.

Why My Spreadsheet Strategy For Budget Baby Clothes Completely Failed

At 2:14 AM on a Tuesday, I was staring at a pivot table I'd built to calculate the exact cost-per-wear of an infant's wardrobe. My son was three months old at the time, and I was treating his closet like...

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Tired mom holding a baby while looking confused at a rack of ladies clearance apparel.

The Truth About That Huge Women Clothing Sale For Tired Moms

The right wheel of my double UPPAbaby stroller was jammed so hard against the slatted door of fitting room number three that I couldn't pry it open if there was a fire. I was standing there in a local boutique...

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Mother organizing a minimalist baby depot of clothes and gear in nursery

Building A Bulletproof Baby Depot For Surviving The Newborn Chaos

It was three in the morning in the dead of a Chicago winter when I finally lost my mind. I was standing in my living room holding a screaming infant, staring at a corner of the house that looked like...

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Exhausted mom in sweatpants checking the diaper of a crying baby at night

That 3 AM Nightmare: Surviving a Wunder Po bei Babys at Home

3:14 AM. A Tuesday. I'm standing in the nursery wearing Dave's ridiculously oversized Villanova sweatpants with a mysterious yogurt stain on the knee, and ten-month-old Maya is screaming like I'm trying to actively murder her. It wasn't her normal "I'm...

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A frustrated mom holding a tiny red velvet holiday dress next to a comfortable organic cotton baby romper.

Dear Jess: Stop buying the velvet holiday dresses for your baby

It's currently July, you're sweating completely through your maternity shorts in the hundred-degree Texas heat, and for some ungodly reason, you're scrolling the internet looking at a stiff, synthetic red velvet monstrosity with eighty-two sequins on it. I need you...

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Wooden infant activity arch over an organic mat in a Chicago apartment.

The ugly truth about that neon plastic baby play gym you just bought

I was sitting cross-legged on my living room rug at three in the morning, holding a screwdriver and weeping quietly over a piece of molded plastic that required four D batteries. The box promised it would stimulate my newborn's cognitive...

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